REMEDIATION

1. The “anthropotropic” process by which new media technologies (i.e., digital photography) improve upon or remedy prior techniques (i.e., film photography).
2. The formal logic by which new media refashion prior media forms.

In an attempt to make these images interactive, I invite your thoughts, whether you have any knowledge of photography or not. What I would like you to respond to in my four digital photographs is the following:

1. Does digital photography compromise a photographic truth you have come to know through traditional film based images and thereby causing a “loss of innocence,” especially now that any photograph ever taken can be scanned and manipulated?
2. Do you think digital has replaced film photography or does digital photography rely on film photography to survive?
3. Has digital photography, and, subsequently, computer manipulation improved and enhanced photography as an art or craft or has it reduced to something obtainable by “Dummies” with a mouse in hand?

You are welcome to comment on any or all of the above or perhaps something related. You may write them on the clipboard by the images at CCA and I will collect the posts periodically or you may email me @ mark.smith@ccaurora.edu. The original process in each situation could have been done using film. Next to each image is an explanation of what the process used to be, vs. how that same process is accomplished now.